Linus Torvalds announced on the kernel mailing list that according to their Finnish custom, Christmas Eve is a very important day, so he will take Sunday off. Therefore, he plans to release Linux 6.7-rc7 ( released ) on December 24, Christmas Eve , but will not release the official version of Linux 6.7 on December 31, New Year's Eve, but 6.7-rc8 .
The development of Linux 6.7 is currently going well, but due to the year-end holiday, Linus decided to postpone the release of the official version of Linux 6.7 by one week to January 7 next year, and then open the Linux 6.8 merge window on January 8 - to avoid opening it on January 1.